9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

12 Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk[a] from the city.

Yesterday was Ascension day which is 40 days after Easter Sunday. Jesus was on earth for 40 days after He rose from the dead. During that time He appeared to His disciples on several occasions. Today we read about His ascension and about the promise of His return to earth in glory. Jesus is in heaven now. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead. We do not know when He will come. Let us be ready by trusting and obeying Jesus all the time.